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Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.

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Politics & Policy

It was a small dresser. And it killed him.

09/16/20
Camden Ellis’s second birthday was just days away. To celebrate, his mother Crystal got him a big-boy bed so he could get up in the mornings and dress himself. After all, Camden had just become a big brother to baby sister Caitlynn, and wanted to show his parents he was responsible. But Camden...
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Don’t be a threat and don’t make the white parents angry.

08/07/20
Coach: Do you feel bad that you hurt Heather*? Me: Oh my gosh, yes. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean t— Coach: Don’t feel bad. Coach was on a quest to get me to be more aggressive on the soccer field. She was a product of a National Championship collegiate team and a near-Olympian herself, and was...
Nora Dennis
Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

Work-Life Balance AND Homeschooling Your Children? It’s Possible!

08/06/20
In 2019, after an extremely distressing school year filled with my son’s academic needs not being met, bullying against him by other students, and constant fear and stress on my part, I decided I was going to take my son’s education into my own hands and homeschool him. This would be in conjunction...
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Issa Mas
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Tell Governors and Mayors to Invest in Student Supports --NOT Police in Schools

07/01/20
We are living in extraordinary times. Nationwide mobilizations in the aftermath of too many police killings have renewed an important conversation about police accountability and the role police play in our lives. Even further this conversation has called into question the role police play in the...
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Rising for Black Lives and LGBTQ+ Rights: Your June MOMentum

06/30/20
From Juneteenth to Pride, this June has been marked by nonstop actions for justice by the MomsRising movement. From marching to calling to texting to letter signing, we have been raising our voices in our communities to call for justice and the end to police violence, to advance voter engagement,...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
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To My Coworkers Who Didn’t Know We Would be Talking About Race On This Zoom Call

06/05/20
Last week, a man was murdered. He was murdered by the State, by those whose job it is to “protect and serve.” He was murdered because they suspected him of something. Anything. Everything. I watched that video play again and again. In it, I saw someone’s child, one who could have been my own. This...
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Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/12412/?source=action">Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!</a>

The Trump Administration's Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would make it legal for HHS-funded agencies and programs to discriminate against women, religious minorities, nonreligious people, and LGBTQ+ people. SIGN to oppose!

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Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7332/?source=action">Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!</a>

ALL HANDS ON DECK: We need you to deliver a letter to your U.S. Representative's local office NOW to protect SNAP! Sign up here and we'll send you everything you need.

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7162/?source=action">Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!</a>

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress are proposing significant cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill, as well as creating unnecessary and harmful barriers to access. SIGN OUR LETTER NOW & tell Congress to protect SNAP!

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Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/6912/?source=action">Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App! </a>

Young kids don't need to spend time on social media!

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Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

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